Members of the Northern Police District-District Drug Enforcement Unit (NPD-DDEU) and the Caloocan City Police Station (CCPS) seized a total of P442,000 worth of alleged shabu from three suspects, two of them women, in two separate buy-bust operations held in Caloocan City on Wednesday, Nov. 23.
Lt. Col. Renato Castillo, NPD-DDEU chief, identified the suspects as Nora Eleazar, 51, and Jayson Villahermosa, 34, both from Barangay 120, Caloocan City.
Police launched the entrapment against the suspects in Alley 8, 2nd Avenue, Brgy. 120 at around 12:05 a.m. on Wednesday, and confiscated five plastic sachets containing around 40 grams of shabu worth P272,000, the but-bust money, and a cigarette box.
Meanwhile, the CCPS Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) arrested the third suspect, Ana Belen, 30, also from Barangay 120, Caloocan City, in another buy-bust operation conducted along Julian Felipe Street, Brgy. 8, in the city at around 6 a.m. on the same day.
Belen yielded five plastic sachets with 25 grams of alleged shabu worth P170,000, the buy bust money, and a black coin purse.
The confiscated alleged illegal drugs from the three suspects were brought to the offices of the arresting units.
The suspects will be charged for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, police said.